If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about… — John Joseph Adams Copy Share Image
“Io, Europa, Ganimedes puer, atque Calisto lascivo nimium perplacuere Iovi. (Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and Callisto greatly pleased lustful Jupiter.) [Marius… — Simon Marius Copy Share Image
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life. — Ivan Sechenov Copy Share Image
And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“In order to approximate dinosaurian physiology, the trio of scientists carried out the unenviable task of sticking thermometers in the cloacae of… — Brian Switek Copy Share Image
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“From the Deist’s perspective, truth is not indoctrination by either science or religion; truth is eloquently expressed through Nature, the true, rational… — Beth Houston Copy Share Image
We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who… — Stanley B. Goldenberg Copy Share Image
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a… — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he… — Deborah G. Felder Copy Share Image
Luv is not a maths to solve luv is not a science to learn luv is not a thing to buy it… — Destrol Copy Share Image
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
When you hit someone back with understanding or love it stops the cycle of friction. Its not always easy to do, but… — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
“But what are facts, really, except things we’ve already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.” — Kathryn Reiss Copy Share Image
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one… — Charles Manning Child Copy Share Image
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image